Introduction

Hello, I have come here today to talk to you about the purpose and the codes and conventions of music video. I will be talking about different subjects on music videos and I will show you the example of videos that I am talking about.

Here are the subject I will be talking about:

Review

Lilly Allen – The Fear

1. She is a solo female artist who has a different type of tempo. You see that most of her videos are unreal however this fits in with her different image.

2. She is singing about things that seem right but are not and this video shows dancing balloons and presents it is almost made out to be a dream. The film starts off with her talking about how she wants lots of big things like money and cloths, whilst talking about this she is sitting in a trailer in the middle of a field. She then walks into a mansion and starts talking about how her life is and compares it to the normal life of the rich and famous this is when the dancing balloons and presents come out.

3. When the tempo is slower she walks slower like when the instrumental part comes in you see her slowly walking up some stairs. It is showing simple things and then when the tempo picks up she moves a bit more and does it in time with the music. She starts skipping in one part when she goes into the room with lots of presents and this shows that she is moving more the beat.

4. Lilly has a very different fashion sense which fits into the videos. She is an attractive female so this will help with sales also her music is very “in”. Her videos are similar in the way that they are all out of the ordinary. The almost cartoon like. In every video her style changes but still fits in there is only a couple of old videos in which she brought out her own style of wearing dresses with trainers, however in this video she has brought out her more feminine style. This video is more of a dream than showing reality but still fits in with the “different” style of video.

7. The view is more narrative based because she is explaining a story of life compared to something that is not real. She is acting to her words.

Britney Spears - Womanizer


5. This video is mainly sexual based. It’s talking about a man who is obsessed with woman. Britney is showed naked and in different raunchy outfits. She dances with lots of different men around her and her moves are very tasteful. The camera shows her naked body but covers up some parts aren’t allowed to be shown. It goes from scene to scene and the different women that Britney acts are all dressed in a very sexual way. There are scene of her in a sauna with no cloths on, her dressed as an office woman with short skirts and low tops.

6. For years Britney has been turned into a very appealing woman with small outfits and raunchy dances. This video relates to many others such as piece of me and boys. She is making a comeback after a very bad break down so she is relating these videos with the styles of other single female artist such as Christina and beyonce.

7. This is mainly performance based with different types of dancing with the different scenes that are very well showed in parts of the song that tells the story of the lyrics.

Music Timeline

1940
Bing Crosby – White Christmas (1942)
Vera Lynn – we’ll meet again someday (1940)
Glen Miller – In the mood (1941)
July Garland - Somewhere over the rainbow (1943)

All the videos are shown as little clips on this website on the right hand side as small videos from you tube use the following link:
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/40smusic.html

1950
Guy Mitchell – My heart cries for you (1950)
Tony Bennett – Cold cold world (1951)
Kay Starr – Wheel of fortune(1952)
Elvis Presley – Hound dog (1956)

To watch elvis perform his famous songs go to:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=elvis+in+the+50%27s&emb=0&aq=f#q=elvis%20hound%20dog%201956&emb=0

1960
Mark Dinning – Teen angel (1960)
The Beatles – I feel fine (1964)
The Beach Boys – I get around (1964)
The McCoys – Hang on sloppy (1965)
Marvin Gaye – I heard it through the grapevines (1978)

1970
Rod Stewart – Maggie may (1971)
Elton John – goodbye yellow brick road (1973)
David Essex – Rock on (1974)
Wild cherry – play that funky music (1976)
Abba – Take a chance on me

Here is a video for Abba
http://www.videocure.com/music-video-code/a/4e4f907b23c27dc8978026b07ce7f03e.html

Here is the video for Wild Cherry
http://www.videocure.com/music-videos/w/da4cf73f45716fe9f3dbf85a47e4e6ec.html

Here is the video for David Essex:
http://www.videocure.com/music-video-code/d/7f7a1bfc0f3dca08084ba25774c3a122.html

1980
Queen – Flash (1981)
Phil Colin – in the air tonight (1981)
Police – spirits in a material world (1982)
Whitney Houston – Saving all my love
Wham – I’m your man
Madonna – Dress you up

1990
Bon Jovi – Keep the faith
Mariah Carey – Hero (1993)
Micheal Jackson – I am not alone (1995)
Aqua – Barbie girl (1997)
Spice Girls – Wannabe (1997)
Celine Dion – my heart will go on (1998)

2000
Pink – you make me sick (2001)
Nelly & Kelly Rowland – dilemma (2002)
Outcast – Hey ya (2004)
Beyonce & shakira – Beautiful liar (2007)
Leona Lewis – Bleeding love (2008)

You can find all these music videos on you tube just type in the artist and the song in the search box and your get your song.